Nasrallah Says Judicial Developments Confirm 'Selectivity' in Port Case

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Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Friday decried anew the presence of what he called selectivity and politicization in the Beirut port blast probe as well as in the judiciary’s response to legal motions filed by the accused ex-PM and former ministers.

“The judicial decisions of the past two days confirm what we have been saying about selectivity and the current course won't lead to truth and justice,” Nasrallah said in a televised address.

“Is there a judge today in the Lebanese judiciary who dares to take a decision to dismiss the investigative judge (Tarek Bitar)? There is a judge (Habib Mezher) who moved in that direction, but they threatened him and fought him,” Nasrallah added.

“What's happening today is that the Lebanese judiciary is protecting each other,” Nasrallah noted, referring to judges who had received documents and complaints related to the ammonium nitrate ship and cargo in the years that preceded the catastrophic blast.

“All information indicates that the judges concerned with the Beirut port file (following the arrival of the ammonium nitrate ship) are in the circle of suspicion,” Hizbullah’s leader went on to say.

He noted that the accused former officials have “resorted to the judicial authorities to rescue them from selectivity,” lamenting that “these judicial authorities are also subject to selectivity and politicization.”

The Court of Cassation on Thursday threw out two lawsuits submitted by ex-premier Hassan Diab and ex-interior minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq accusing Bitar of summoning them illegally. It ruled there was no evidence suggesting Bitar had committed any errors.

The same court also overturned two similar lawsuits filed by lawmakers Ali Hassan Khalil and Ghazi Zoaiter. Also on Thursday, the Criminal Court of Cassation rejected a lawsuit filed by ex-public works minister Youssef Fenianos that had demanded Bitar's removal from the blast probe.

Turning to the issue of the file of the Tayyouneh-Ain al-Remmaneh deadly incidents, Nasrallah decried that the Military Court “has come under very huge pressure from political and religious sides.”

“Even those lecturing us to resort to the judiciary refused to go to the judiciary and some of the fugitives are present in Maarab and are being protected there so that they don't get arrested,” Nasrallah charged.

Warning that “this is a dangerous behavior,” Hizbullah’s secretary-general warned, criticized certain religious and political sides who are “pressing for the release of the rest of the detainees.”

“This is disregard for the martyrs, their families and all the parties they belong to, and that this is insistence on the scheme of strife,” he cautioned.

He added that those sides must stop the alleged pressure and that “the judiciary must take its normal course.”

“Those who took part in the killings must be put on trial and continuing the current course is dangerous,” Nasrallah went on to say.

Timeline
  • 26 November 2021, 21:31

    Nasrallah: The political and religious sides exerting pressures on the judiciary to release the Tayyouneh case detainees must stop this pressure and the judiciary must take its normal course. Those who took part in the killings must be put on trial and continuing the current course is dangerous.

  • 26 November 2021, 21:21

    Nasrallah: This is a dangerous behavior. I tell these religious and political sides that are exerting pressures on the military judiciary to release the rest of the detainees that this is disregard for the martyrs, their families and all the parties they belong to, and that this is insistence on the scheme of strife.

  • 26 November 2021, 21:19

    Nasrallah on Tayyouneh-Ain al-Remmaneh file: The Military Court came under very huge pressure from political and religious sides. Even those lecturing us to resort to the judiciary refused to go to the judiciary and some of the fugitives are present in Maarab and are being protected there so that they don't get arrested.

  • 26 November 2021, 21:16

    Nasrallah: Those concerned resorted to the judicial authorities to rescue them from selectivity, but we've found that these judicial authorities are also subject to selectivity and politicization.

  • 26 November 2021, 21:15

    Nasrallah: All information indicates that the judges concerned with the Beirut port file (following the arrival of the ammonium nitrate ship) are in the circle of suspicion.

  • 26 November 2021, 21:08

    Nasrallah: What's happening today is that the Lebanese judiciary is protecting each other.

  • 26 November 2021, 21:08

    Nasrallah: Is there a judge today in the Lebanese judiciary who dares to take a decision to dismiss the investigative judge? There is a judge who moved in that direction, but they threatened him and fought him.

  • 26 November 2021, 21:03

    Nasrallah: The judicial decisions of the past two days confirm what we have been saying about selectivity and the current course won't lead to truth and justice.

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Thumb CODE.961 26 November 2021, 22:51

لو كان في لبنان مليون جائع لما اعطيناهم الخبز بل سنعطيهم البندقية حتى يسقطو النظام
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Thumb justice 27 November 2021, 09:37

" Even those lecturing us to resort to the judiciary refused to go to the judiciary and some of the fugitives are present in Maarab and are being protected there so that they don't get arrested."

I wonder where the fugitives (Saints) who were accused of killing Hariri, Tueini, Gemayel, Bijani, Slim, etc. are hiding.

Thumb EagleDawn 27 November 2021, 11:52

The day this evil Iranian sectarian terrorist is brutally and violently murdered is the day we celebrate our true independence.

Thumb i.report 27 November 2021, 15:30

Hallelujah!

Missing samiam 27 November 2021, 13:56

So, what he is saying is that any judicial decisions that go against kizb are 'suspicious". If he has any proof to his positions, maybe he should present them in one of his 'speeches' or better yet, to the actual courts.

Sounds like a sore loser to me---everyone knows that kizb was in charge of the port and now they are claiming they are innocent. NOBODY believes in their innocents--they just don't want it to be public knowledge.

Default-user-icon AJ (Guest) 27 November 2021, 19:05

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لو كان في لبنان مليون جائع لما اعطيناهم الخبز بل سنعطيهم البندقية حتى يسقطو النظام
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Sayyed Nasrullah is the one who claims that his party is the one who won the war against Israel!
Can he tell us what is his plan to Liberate the Golan from the Israeli Occupation? Or Palestine for that matter?
I don’t think so, talk is cheap and so his empty promises.
The Judiciary is above all and no one is above the Law. Y’a Sayyed, your attacks against the Judiciary
Are nothing else than proofs of Guilt against those you are trying to protect.
Lebanon will never be under the Iranian Shariah or subject to submit to the Iranian Ayatollah will.

Missing cedars 28 November 2021, 01:18

Tell us about the dark Chevy car that belong to your son that were found at the port destroyed?

Tell us why bejani was assassinated ?

Why Israel for the first time was never accused ? Was your son leading the continuous theft of nitrate when he was hit from the sky ?